what about it?

I'm slow to change on some things.  Took me a few years to switch from Alta Vista to Google (which around 1998 or so was using a modified form of Alta Vista's engine, iirc).  I'm used to Google now.  I know the search syntax.  I know which links in the search results are paid-for ads vs real results, and I'm expert at blocking its cookies and scripts that are irrelevant for my search requirements.

I don't know Bing.

Yahoo has never been the best (read: fastest, most accurate) search engine and requires too many scripts and cookies to use safely.

Bing will have become the best search engine, returning the most relevant links, with a clean and easy-to-use (read: fewest keystrokes+mouse clicks) interface that lets me control my own data and protect my own privacy before I consider it.  It may be years before that happens, if my Alta Vista + Google experience is any indication.

What else might make me switch?  If Google OS becomes the privacy and data collection monster I expect it to be.

  "Hang on a sec, I'll just Bing it"

It will be... Google never does anything unless it has ulterior motives, and/or a hidden agenda....and data collection for advertising purposes is its game, which is why I never use anything Google. 

The closest I come to anything Google is when I click on a link here that happens to take me to YouTube... and when that bastard google analytics thing is running at every page load on *too many* sites I happen to visit.

Hence, I don't need to switch to just "Bing it"

Mostly use FF, so pray tell, how do you block google analytics?  Without blocking other scripts: ie, Stardock's?  I tried using AdBlockPro, but I still see it running every time I log in here/elsewhere.

Yup, that did the trick!  Thanks a bunch.

I hope Google wins.

By the way I don't see why you all have an issue with Google collecting your private data. US Government does it all the time.

Wonder if you'd say that if you knew just how much data they've collected on you...

... and have stashed away for a rainy day, to use as they see fit.

Orright, Google hasn't gotten so far as to prying into your toilet habits *yet*, but keep empowering them and it''ll only a matter of time before they know which hand you use to shake off the drips.

Oh, and if you use their Chrome OS with a fingerprint reconnition keyboard, they'll have you fingerprints before you know it... and any criminal/employment/medical records attached to them. so they can target you with lawyer/bail bondsmen ads; work clothes and resume writers ads; Zimmer frame and Viagra ads just a few short years from now.

Bing was supposed to be called Bring...as in bring me.As usual MS got it wrong and when the mistake was pointed out to them,ignored the user input.

I confess.  I use Google (guiltlessly) as an verb - despite Google, Inc.'s attempts to shun that trend.  In fact, I may be doing a passive-aggressive rebellion thing and specifically using the term because they don't want me to do so.  It's my little way of getting Whitey's jack-boot off of the back of my neck.

Speak for yourself.  For myself, when my local schools kicked off the Child Safety program involving ID cards and fingerprints for my kindergartener and 3rd grader, I opted out of the fingerprinting.  Because the package was being sold to parents as a way to recover missing children.  Sounds great.  Until I started trying to remember when the last time I ever heard of a kidnapped kid being found by tracing the child's fingerprints.  I still haven't found that story.

Weird, we'll be bombarded even more by continual misleading advertisements; most of which spent on lies rather than creating true "work" for real people.

Don't you all have had enough with being interrupted constantly everywhere you simply see?

I certainly can't afford wasting my life away on mind wrecking psychotic overpricing gimmicks wherever they may popup along with propaganda.

Yep, banners, sidebars, click on this, consume and get drunk at the newest wheels.

Leeches are sucking your rational senses dry.

Problem is, we can't opt out of such harassment processes.